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Microsoft Releases Blazor WebAssembly 3.2.0 RC
Earlier this week, Microsoft released Blazor WebAssembly 3.2 RC. This is the last planned preview release of Blazor WebAssembly, and it contains all features expected for its official general availability. The production-ready release is scheduled for sometime in May.
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Data Fetching Patterns for a Better User Experience - Joe Savona at React Conf
Joe Savona explored at React Conf some of the ways Relay and Suspense can help improve the user loading experience and the best practices that have been identified in production for using Suspense for data-fetching.
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Blender, Facebook State-of-the-Art Human-Like Chatbot, Now Open Source
Blender is an open-domain chatbot developed at Facebook AI Research (FAIR), Facebook’s AI and machine learning division. According to FAIR, it is the first chatbot that has learned to blend several conversation skills, including the ability to show empathy and discuss nearly any topic, beating Google's chatbot in tests with human evaluators.
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CircleCI Releases API Version 2 with Improved Insights Endpoints
CircleCI has improved the stability of their insights endpoints in the version 2 release of their API. The insights endpoints allow for tracking the status of jobs and workflows, monitoring the duration of jobs, and investigating opportunities for optimizing resource consumption.
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Google Cloud Healthcare API Now Generally Available
In a recent blog post, Google announced the general availability of its Cloud Healthcare API. This service facilitates the exchange of healthcare data between solutions built on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and applications.
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Architecture Decision Records at Spotify
Several teams at Spotify use architecture decision records (ADR) to capture decisions they make. ADRs have brought a number of benefits to Spotify, including improved onboarding for new developers, improved agility when handing over project ownership due to organization changes, and improved alignment across teams regarding best practices.
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Obituary: Jan Stenberg
It is with great sadness that we announce that InfoQ editor Jan Stenberg has passed away due to complications from COVID-19. Jan was a well-known writer within the technology space, and was a frequent attendee at conferences held around the globe. He will be deeply missed within the InfoQ community.
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Google Announces Anthos Support for Multi-Cloud is Generally Available
In a recent blog post, Google announced that Athos support for multi-cloud is generally available. With Anthos, customers can now consolidate all their operations across on-premises, Google Cloud, and other clouds starting with AWS and Microsoft Azure as it is currently in preview.
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Stack Overflow Migrate Architecture from .NET Framework to .NET Core
Stack Overflow has recently completed migrating their system architecture from .NET Framework to .NET Core. This is the platform that powers not only Stack Overflow but also 170+ question and answer communities as well as private Q&A sites for companies.
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Optimization Strategies for the New Facebook.com - Ashley Watkins at React Conf
Ashley Watkins discussed at React Conf some of the technologies and strategies powering FB5, the new facebook.com, addressing topics such as data-driven dependencies, phased code and data downloading, and more.
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Facebook's CSS-in-JS Approach - Frank Yan at React Conf 2019
Frank Yan discussed at React Conf some of the technologies and strategies powering FB5, the new facebook.com, addressing topics such as Facebook’s approach to CSS-in-JS.
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55th Anniversary of Moore's Law
April 2020 marks 55 years since Intel co-founder Gordon Moore published ‘Cramming more components onto integrated circuits’. For over 50 years Intel and its competitors kept making Moore’s law come true, but more recently efforts to push down chip feature size have been hitting trouble with limitations in economics and physics that force us to consider what happens in a post Moore’s law world.
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To Microservices and Back Again - Why Segment Went Back to a Monolith
When Segment moved to a microservices architecture, they gained environmental isolation, but at a cost of higher operational overhead. Three years later, the costs were too high, and the team migrated back to a monolith. At QCon London, Alexandra Noonan told the cautionary tale, and emphasized the importance of evaluating trade-offs in architectural decisions.
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Vulnerability Scanner Trivy Now Available as Integrated Option within Harbor
Aqua Security has announced that Trivy, their open source vulnerability scanner, is now available as an integrated option within a number of platforms. Trivy is able to scan for vulnerabilities within operating systems and a number of common application dependencies.
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Rewriting Dropbox Sync with Confidence Thanks to a Robust Test Strategy
Over the last few years, Dropbox engineers have rewritten their client-side sync engine from scratch. This would not have been possible had they not defined a clear testing strategy to allow them to build and ship the new engine through a quick release cycle, writes Dropbox engineer Isaac Goldberg.